Phoebe Yeh
Phoebe Yeh is the vice president and co-publisher at Crown Books for Young Readers/Random House. She worked with Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen on The Magic School Bus series and with Walter Dean Myers, author of Monster, The first Printz winner, for twenty years. She edited the New York Times bestselling series Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce and The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani. Phoebe has also published the New York Times bestseller hybrid illustrated novel Max & the Midknights by Lincoln Peirce; New York Times bestsellers Dear Justyce, Dear Martin and Clean Getaway by Nic Stone; the short-story anthology The Hero Next Door in partnership with We Need Diverse Books; We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices and The Talk: Conversations About Race, Love & Truth edited by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson; the debut tween novel Isaiah Dunn is My Hero by Kelly J. Baptist, a BEA MG Book Buzz selection.
Other projects Phoebe has worked on include the Fairy Science picture books by Ashley Spires, My Teacher is a Robot and the graphic novel series Lucy & Andy Neanderthal and Once Upon a Space-time with Jeffrey Brown.
Upcoming titles include Otto P. Nudd by Emily Butler; Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. Browne; Star of the Party: Solar System: The Solar System Celebrates (Jan Carr/Juana Medina); Sprouting Wings: The True Story of James Herman Banning, The First African American Pilot to Fly Across the United States (Louisa Jaggar & Shari Becker/Floyd Cooper).
She is a recipient of the inaugural CBC Diversity Outstanding Achievement Award.
Awards
• Children’s Book Council
(CBC) Diversity Outstanding Achievement Award
